What are some unsolved problems in earth science?

Even 15 years after the release of “Good Will Hunting,” there remains something appealing about watching the title character, a mathematically inclined janitor at MIT, scribble the solution to an unsolved mathematics problem on a hallway blackboard. read more

Here is a list of some of the unsolved problems in Earth Science which interest me. There are many, many more! 1. The composition of the mantle and core are poorly constrained, so much so that looking down is not unlike the astronomer looking up. We have to infer everything. 2. There are electrical currents in the Earth, termed telluric currents. read more

In reality, there are a number of unsolved problems in mathematics, seven of which were designated in 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute as “Millennium Prize Problems,” each with a purse of $1,000,000. To date, only one has been solved. Earth science, too, has put forth a long stream of unsolved questions. read more

The Greatest Unsolved Problems in Science (Please come back periodically as information will be added from time to time) A lot about the world has been learned during the past few centuries, but some mysteries still remain. read more